Who writes this
Justibly is written and maintained by a small independent team based in South Africa. None of us are admitted attorneys, and no page on this site is drafted or signed off by a practising lawyer before it publishes. That is a limitation and we would rather say so plainly than let a byline imply otherwise.
What the team is actually good at is different from legal judgement: taking the Legal Practice Council's public roll, which lists tens of thousands of practitioners, and turning it into pages a person can search, filter and read at a scale nobody browsing the LPC's own site could manage by hand. Our guides and answers are general information, compiled from public statutes, court rules and the LPC's own published guidance. They are not the considered opinion of a lawyer applied to your specific facts, and we do not present them as that.
Where the data comes from
Every attorney and firm listing on Justibly starts from the Legal Practice Council's public register. We import a snapshot of that register and rebuild the site's listings from it; our copy was last refreshed on 17 April 2026.
One exclusion in that process is checked, not just claimed. Before any attorney record is written to the site, we compare it against the LPC's list of struck and suspended practitioners. If a match exists, that record is dropped and never published, not flagged, not shown with a warning label, simply not written to the site at all. It is one of the few things on this page we can state as a fact we actually verify, rather than a policy we intend to follow.
The register itself can still lag reality. The LPC updates its own records on its own schedule, and a practitioner who has been struck off, retired or moved firms since our last import may not yet reflect that here. If you spot something that looks out of date, the fastest fix is telling us, not assuming the discrepancy means something worse than a stale copy.
What the Trust Score is and is not
Attorney profiles carry a Trust Score. See the Trust Score page for the factors the score is intended to weigh; we are not going to restate them here, since keeping them in one place is the only way they stay accurate as they change.
What we will say plainly here is the current state of it: every attorney card on Justibly shows a score of 0 out of 100 today, for every attorney, paid or free, claimed or unclaimed. That 0 is not an assessment of anyone; it is the value every record currently holds. Justibly has not launched yet, so no attorney has actually been scored or reviewed, which is why every card reads 0. Scores begin to mean something once the platform is live, practitioners claim their profiles, and reviews accumulate.
What a badge means
You will see an "LPC Verified" badge on attorney listings. It asserts one specific thing: this person appeared on our copy of the Legal Practice Council's public roll at the time of our last import. That is what it means and all it means. It is not an assessment of the attorney's competence, not an independent identity check beyond what the roll itself establishes, and not a clean-record guarantee beyond the struck-off exclusion described above.
Underneath that badge, our own attorney records carry a verified flag. Today that flag is set for every attorney on the site, because it reflects the same roll-presence check the badge displays, not a second, independent layer of scrutiny performed on top of it. We are telling you this so the badge is read for what it actually checks, not for more than that.
Claiming a profile is a separate, unrelated action. When a practitioner claims their listing, they gain control over the details shown on it, their bio, practice areas, languages, contact details and photograph. Claiming does not add a second verification layer on top of the LPC check; it hands the practitioner the pen for their own page.
Not legal advice
Nothing on Justibly, on any guide, any answer, any attorney profile, is legal advice, and using this site does not create an attorney-client relationship with Justibly or with anyone listed on it. Laws change, facts differ from case to case, and a general guide cannot account for the specifics of your situation. If you need advice you can rely on, consult an admitted attorney directly.
Corrections and removals
Any attorney or firm listed on Justibly can ask us to correct or remove their entry, free of charge, whether or not they have ever paid for anything on the platform. Email [email protected] or use the contact page, tell us what is wrong, and we will fix it.
Where the issue is a factual error, a wrong number, an outdated practice area, a firm that has closed, we correct it on the page itself. We do not quietly delete accurate information because someone would rather it were not public. If a practitioner genuinely wants their listing removed, we will remove it; we are not going to argue anyone into staying on a directory against their wishes.
Commercial
Justibly makes money from optional subscriptions and profile claims, not from how anyone is described. A paid subscription unlocks features, online booking, a lead inbox, featured placement in slots that are clearly marked as paid. It does not touch the Trust Score, it does not move an attorney's position in an unpaid list, and it does not change the words used to describe them. If you ever see something that looks like payment buying a better description, that is a bug, and we would want to know about it.
Questions? Contact us or email [email protected].